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AMD Roadmap for Coming Year and Beyond
nexex writes: "With a new year comes new products, and AMD certainly has some new toys for us to drool over. The first of 2002 will see the release of "Thoroughbred," a version of the Athlon XP chip made on the more advanced 130-nanometer manufacturing process. The chip will cover 80 square millimeters in area, or 65 percent of the space of the "Northwood" Pentium 4 coming from Intel in early January. That chip measures 116 square millimeters, according to AMD estimates.
For more, including info on Clawhammer, Sledgehammer, and all the Intel bashing you can handle, see here." I hope they don't really mean that "these new chips will also consume less heat than current AMD notebooks chips."
maybe they use heat to turn turbines, which generate the electricity the chips need to run...
Actually, I was thinking this would be great for a dual-processor system... Have one chip that generates heat and one that consumes it, slap them back-to-back and say goodbye to clunky cooling fans!
--Fesh
Kill -9 'em all, let root@localhost sort 'em out.
These new processors actually do consume heat as they operate, turning it into valuable CPU cycles. These processors require the use of a whole new CPU packaging technology that pumps heat into, rather than out of, the CPU core. Initial tests in laptop configurations have proven uncomfortable to use, due to the fact that the laptop begins to condense water out of the air, and eventually frost over as it runs. AMD expects that these problems will be solved by the time these processors reach the marketplace.
They will no doubt use this new technology to bury Intel, Microsoft, AOL Time Warner and the Soviet Union. Having vanquished these foes, they will split their company into a half dozzen competing CPU manufacturers that compete fairly with one another. Each of these new chip makers will pour billions of dollars into Linux development. Their executives and directors will use their extra income to feed starving children and help build a better public education system.
Oh, wait. That would break the laws of thermodynamics. Never mind.
In spite of the suggestions and all the tests that I have made, I have not cavato a spider from the hole.
Bzzzt. There's no such thing as GHz, only dimensionless numbers and meaningless postfix operators. Now, repeat after me:
Speed: 2400+
My mother was killed by a palomino, you heartless SOB.
Yes, just swap VCC and VDD. Can't see why this hasn't been thought of before. (-:
Disclaimer for the idiots: trying this will almost certainly popcorn your entire computer.
Got time? Spend some of it coding or testing